Actis

Actis has appointed Alistar Mackintosh as chief executive officer. Additionally, he will chair the firm's investment committees. Mackintosh was formerly at PPM Ventures and has also worked for 3i. He will replace Andrew Reicher, who moves to managing the Actis energy fund.Actis has also announced that Sir Tim Lankester and Paul Collins are joining the supervisory board. In addition, Actis announces that Peter Smitham will take over the chairmanship of Actis from Lord Cairns at the end of this year. Lord Cairns chaired CDC for nine years prior to its demerger earlier this year, when he took on his current role. Lankester is President of Corpus Christi College at Oxford University. Previously, he has held posts as director, school of oriental and african studies, London University, as well as permanent secretary in two government departments - the former overseas development administration and the former department for education and employment. He has also served as Britain's executive director on the boards of the World Bank and the IMF. Lancaster was private secretary to two Prime Ministers, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher. Collins spent four decades at Citicorp and became its vice chairman in 1988, and retired in 2000. He held many key positions including chief investment officer, chief financial officer and senior corporate officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Collins is also a director and vice chairman of Nokia and a non-executive director of BG Group. Smitham joined the CDC board in 2000 as a non-executive director and, with Lord Cairns, transferred to Actis on the demerger. He has nearly 20 years private equity experience at Permira, where he is a partner and has held the positions of UK managing partner and European chairman. During his time with the company, Peter led the first European buyout fund to exceed E1bn and in 2003 Permira raised a E5bn fund.

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